Cigar-holder.



J. N. WELLS.

CIGAR HOLQER. APPLICATION HLE D MIG. I0. 1917- LZQ5 5Q. Patented Feb. 25, 1919 INVENTOR WITNESSES- l 0hilifl ATTORNEY Jill-IN WELLS, F LONER LAKE, CALEFQRNIA.

Application fileti'wlugnst 1D. 1917.

To alt/(1 mm it may concern:

Be it known that 1. JOHN N. WELLS, a citizen of the lilnited States, residing at Lower Lake. in the county of Lake and (it of California, have invented new and useful improvements in Cigar-Holders, of which the. following;- is a specification.

This invention relates to a cigar holder and the primary object of the invention is to provide an article of manufacture of this character which is in the form of a sectional casing to enable a cigar when arranged therein to he smoked without likelihood of the ashes disfiguring the clothing of the wearer and also to enable a whole, or partialy consumed cigar to be carried within the pocket without. the cigar becoming cracked or broken.

Another object of the invention is to provide one of the casing sections with a spring clip which may not only be employed to retain the cigar engaged with one of the easing sections but may also he employed to engage the casing with the wall of a Pocketin the clothing oi the owner of the holder.

With these and other objects in view,

the invention resides in the novel combination and arrangement of parts, which will he hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claim.

The preferred embodiment of the invention has been illustrated in the accompanying drawing. although. no restriction is necessarily made to the precise details of construction therein shown, as changes, alterations. and modifications, within the scope of the. claim may he resorted to when desired.

la the drawing:

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of a. cigar holder constructed in accordance with the invention.

2 is a longitudinal sectional view therethrough.

Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the clip upon one of the sections raised to permit the disconnection of the cigar from the section.

Fig. i is a vertical transverse section on the line 4- i of Fig. 3.

Like characters of reference denote corre sponding parts throughout the several views in the drawing.

Referring now to the drawing in detail the numeral designates a casing in which may he arranget a cigar ll with the casing formed from a pair of easing sectionsv l2 and lit, The cosine section 12 which is ct less Li) I pecification of Letters Patent.

Serial No. 1 5.546.

length than'thc casing section 13 is provided at one end witha reduced extension ll having encoding longitudinally thereof channel 15. which is enlarged for a portion ofits length. as at. 16 to enable the end of the cigar to be inserted in the casing section 12. The casing section 12 which ser es as a mouth piece has formed iii-the hotly thereof a.- longitudinally extending recess 17 in which is arranged a leaf spring 18 having one end thereof secured to the casing; section and its other end provided with an actuating lmoh 19; The leaf spring has secured to its under face a curved pin 20 which passes through a hole 21 in the casing section and extends within the enlarged portion of the channel to engage the end of the cigar inserted, in the channel and retain the cigar in engagement with the casing section 12.

The casing section 13 overlaps an end of the casing" section 12 with the overlapping portion of the casing section 13 threadedly connected. with the underlying portion of the casing section 12 the outer end of the casing section 13 has stretched there across a wire netting which, prevents the ashes which fall from an ignited cigar escaping from the holder.

hen it is desired to employ the holder to protect a cigar to he carried in the pocket, the casing section 13 is disconnected from the casing section 12 and thespring 18 raised to withdraw the pin from the channel 15, so that the end of the cigar may be inserted in the casing" section 12. Prcssnrc by the fingers upon the spring is now released to allow the spring to drive the pin '20 within the cigar and the casing;' section can now be connected with the casing section 19. When the casing sections have been connected as described the holder is arrangedin the pocket with the front wall of the pocket passing octween the lmoh on the spring and casing section 12, thus the clip prevents the casual displacement oi the holder from within the pocket.

Then it is desired to smoke the cigar within the holder the casingsection '13 is disconnected from the .sccliou l2 and the cigar ignited after which. the casing section 13 is again engaged in the casing section 12 to prevent the ashes or sparks from the cigar disfiguring the clothing ot the smoker.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, it is at once apparent that a cigar holder has been provided which is comparatively ineX pensivejo manufacture and efiicient in the pur ose set forth.

swing thus described the invention, what 1 is claimed as new, is

with a recess receiving a cigar, a leaf spring secured at one end ugon said casing, and

10 a pin secured upon t e underside of said spring at a point spaced from its free end and extending through a hole in suid casing, for peneti'utii'e engagement with the cigar, the fi'eeend of hilld spring being formed :15 IL knob, and the pertion of said spring between its free end and said pin serving us a gel} inent pocket engaging clip. V

In testimony whereof I uflix my signature.

Jenn N. WELLS. 

